We don’t normally spend a lot of time writing about IBM mainframes, but these big iron systems drive a lot of transactions in the world – transactions flush with demographics and context that will feed into AI models – and will be doing native and integrated AI processing for the applications that push those applications. …
Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes.
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …
While the hyperscalers and cloud builders provide the best indicator of what it takes to create state of the art GenAI models and the infrastructure to train them as well as to put them into production for practical use through an API interface, perhaps IBM is one of the best leading indicators for how GenAI will slowly be adopted by the enterprises of the world within their own organizations. …
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. …
Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …
When you are International Business Machines and you do corporate IT deals in 185 countries around the world, political and economic uncertainty is always a problem. …
A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises. …
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
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